A Focus on Values and Mission. SIT's learning community is shaped by highly skilled practitioners committed to advancing sustainability, equity, inclusion, and social change, across a diversity of sectors.

An International Learning Community. SIT students come from all over the globe. Many return to their home countries, where they use their learning at SIT to effect change.

The SIT Graduate Experience:

Experiential, hands-on learning in strong, multicultural cohorts

A focus on social justice and engaged global citizenship — from the grassroots to macro level

A carefully structured curriculum of theory, practice, and reflection

Personalized learning plans aligned with career objectives

Practitioner faculty and an 8:1 student-to-faculty ratio

A mentored, supervised practicum or teaching internship with organizations worldwide

Comprehensive career and practicum services to advance students’ careers

Announcements

Still accepting applications for 2015 programs on a rolling basis. Contact Admissions for details.

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By Nidhi Shendurnikar-Tere, CONTACT participant in 2014 It was the 16th of December when I landed in Delhi from Nepal. On seeing news about the dastardly killings of innocent school children in Peshawar, I wondered how my identity as a South Asian had undergone immense transformation during the past two weeks as a participant of […]

By Amy Jersild, Faculty, DC Center On January 3, 2015, 13 students (10 from the DC Center and 3 from Brattleboro, half from the US and half international) and I landed in Ahmedabad, India, to the celebratory sights and sounds of the local minority Muslim population observing the anniversary of Mohammed’s birth. Our first taste […]

In such an intimate academic setting, SIT students get to know their classmates very well. Needless to say, with so many passionate and like-minded people in the same place, it is no wonder that many long-term relationships have been formed over SIT’s 50-year history. In recognition of Valentine’s Day, we thought it would be special […]